The Great Egret is partially migratory, with northern hemisphere birds moving south from areas with colder winters. It breeds in colonies in trees close to…
The Garden Chafer thorax is usually green, sometimes almost black. The elytra have green or blue iridescence. This chafer most often encountered feeding on flowerheads…
I have spotted some Fieldfares in downtown Vienna, took my Pentax K-5II with the Sigma 120-400mm without tripod and tried to capture some of these…
The Superb Starling or Lamprotornis superbus can commonly be found in East Africa, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. So I was very surprised…
We saw this fine specimen near a mountain lake in the Austrian Alps about 2.000m above sea level. It was a rainy and cloudy day,…



